Feb 22 – 25, 2021
Perimeter Institute
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Division algebraic symmetry breaking

Feb 22, 2021, 10:00 AM
25m
Perimeter Institute

Perimeter Institute

Speaker

Nichol Furey (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Description

Can the 32C-dimensional algebra RCHO offer anything new for particle physics? Indeed it can. Here we identify a sequence of complex structures within RCHO which sets in motion a cascade of breaking symmetries: Spin(10) -> Pati-Salam -> Left-Right symmetric -> Standard model + B-L (both pre- and post-Higgs-mechanism). These complex structures derive from the octonions, then from the quaternions, then from the complex numbers. It should be noted that this pattern would not have been obvious within the standard formalism.

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